I did a lot of very deep windows programming in my previous job and reminding me that I would always use the 8.3 short name for file operations! dir /x will get it for you. Must be API called for it also. Probably only works on local volumes not network rounded ones. Just a guess.
I've run into problems on some unix shells with maximum command-line lengths. -y On Wed, 17 Apr 2024 at 11:58 PM, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users < perl6-users@perl.org> wrote: > On 4/17/24 19:10, William Michels via perl6-users wrote: > > Hi Todd, > > > > Here are a few U&L StackExchange answers that I wrote using Raku's > `unlink`: > > > > > https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/459521/how-to-truncate-file-to-maximum-number-of-characters-not-bytes/751267#751267 > > > > > https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/749558/remove-exact-line-from-file-if-present-leave-the-rest-of-lines-error-handling/749581#749581 > > > > (Suggestions welcome). > > > Hi William, > > unlink($_) if $bak.IO:e & $bak.IO:f; > > Interesting! Thank you. > > The problem is that you can not implicitly trust > the file operations when programming on the kluge. > Linux, no problem. > > I wish I had more Linux customers, but I do not. > > -T > > I do not know if you are, but I just append .tmp or .bak on to the name > of my program. I have never used Kernel32::GetTempTileNameA. > > > https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/fileapi/nf-fileapi-gettempfilenamea >
